Posted by alexandra_k on October 30, 2018, at 20:17:35
In reply to Re: The Witch King of Angmar, posted by beckett2 on October 30, 2018, at 14:58:32
Do you think anyone would be charged with fraud if there was a round 2 of the same thing in New Zealand?
Ignorance and inability to do statistical tests is different from intentionally misleading or falsifying - yes?
She was a front, clearly. Someone... Put her up to it, I'd say.
10 years of no more being a front... I wonder what retirement plan that got her...
They got blood...
Often with research projects / experiments the real work is not disclosed. It's fairly clear (in the way that New Zealand is a caricature) that whatever the person *says* they are doing (which is why their project got the money) is not the same as what it is that is potentially getting someone rich from their project.
Often it's just about their collecting samples of whatever. It's becoming more up-front that the funding is conditional on them sending the samples to a particlar laboratory or whatever (for them to run who knows what tests on).
Obtaining biological tissue samples is a big deal. It is generally... Obtaining foetuses that were aborted. Obtaining foreskins from circumscised infants. Obtaining tumor samples (or other samples obtained during operations)... People will pay for these things... There is a market for them...
I'm curious about how that works in the US. People are paid to donate blood? That is then privately owned?
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